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Antonio Conte will be hoping to record his 14th league win on the trot

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Arsene Wenger said Chelsea are super favourites for the title

No one is foolish enough at Chelsea to fall for all the chat of the possibility of ‘blowing a nine point lead’

Pat Nevin

But Nevin is convinced his old club won’t pay much attention to Wenger’s mind games.

“The chat in the ether from many people would have you believe that the title is Chelsea’s to lose, a little subtle bit of pressure in underlining the negativity of the situation,” Nevin told the club’s official website.

“This is nothing more than good, if slightly predictable, psychology I reckon. Even Arsene Wenger has got in on the act by quoting that Chelsea are ‘super favourites to win the league’.

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Mauricio Pochettino will be hoping to stop Chelsea in their tracks

“This is probably even less subtle psychology from Arsene, in that he is also trying to instil the aforementioned pressure of failure from his base in north London while hoping for a bit of complacency from the Blues.

“No one is foolish enough at Chelsea to fall for that, for all the chat of the possibility of ‘blowing a nine point lead’.

“First of all, it has been at the most six points at the end of any round of fixtures up until now, and secondly, if the Blues lost one game and it became three points, would that constitute ‘blowing it’?